Etienne Abelin

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Etienne Abelin (* 1972 in Bern ) is a Swiss violinist and cultural manager .

Life

Abelin studied classical violin at the Music Academy of the City of Basel as well as at Oberlin College (Ohio) and at Indiana University (Indiana). He also dealt with historical performance practice on the baroque violin and with jazz . He completed an Executive MBA program in General Management at the University of St. Gallen Business School , which he completed with an Executive MBA in 2010 . He trained as a conductor at the Zurich University of the Arts .

Abelin made his first orchestral experiences from 1995 to 1997 in the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado , who appointed him as section leader of the second violins. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and since 2004 section leader of the second violins in the Orchestra Mozart Bologna, both of which are also directed by Claudio Abbado. Abelin has developed and designed several of his own music projects so far, including being the artistic director of the Matteis Project - Baroque ReImagined . Abelin was the musical director of the project A Clear View of Heaven - a pop-baroque music-theatrical intervention directed by Joachim Schlömer and with the participation of pop singer Ane Brun and baroque singer Marisa Martins , which premiered in 2007 at the Lucerne Festival . In 2008 he designed and implemented the interactive music project Rhythm'n'Foot 08 , a combination of music and live football matches , as part of the artistic program accompanying the 2008 European Football Championship . In 2013 Abelin led another project under the name DJ meets Orchestra . At this concert by the Central Switzerland Youth Symphony Orchestra, a version of the fourth symphony by Johannes Brahms , recomposed by Fabrizio Cassol , was played together with the cello soloist Jonathan Faulhaber and the Belgian disc jockey DJ Grazzhoppa. It was also the Order of Operations of Nico Muhly in Europe premiered.

At the Festspielhaus in St. Pölten is Abelin since 2008 as music curator active and Artist in Residence in the 2009/2010 season. He is committed to innovations in classical music in order to appeal to new and younger audiences and is currently building a new platform for this. Abelin has played with the baroque orchestra Apollo's Fire (The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra) , the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston , the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra , the New England String Ensemble and the Orchester Philharmonique Suisse as well as concertmaster with the Basel Sinfonietta . In the trio BachSpace he fuses with the pianist Tamar Halperin and the audio designer Tomek Kolczyński the music of Bach with samples , loops and sounds at the interface of baroque music and electronica .

Abelin's “joy in discovery and pleasure in experiment” are highlighted by the critics and he has been described as a “traveler between folk music, classical music and jazz”. He has been teaching at the Basel City Music Academy since 2003. Abelin plays a violin made by V. Panormo in 1780 and a baroque violin made by Johann Christoph Leidolff in 1740. He lives in Basel.

Awards

Discography (selection)

Abelin took part in the following CD recordings, partly as a soloist :

  • The Atlantis Ensemble: Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op.44 & Franz Schubert “The Trout” . Musica Omnia 2007.
  • Sound painting Haydn . Dane Recordings 2006.
  • Kolpakov Gypsy Trio: A Tribute to Stesha: Russian Gypsy Diva . Naxos 2005.
  • Charmillon Piano Quartet: MOZART - BRAHMS . In-house production 2002.
  • Music of Russian Princesses From The Court of Catherine the Great . Dorian Records 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Susanne Kübler: Short biography: Etienne Abelin. In: The rulers with baton. Tages-Anzeiger , August 6, 2010, accessed on August 9, 2010 .
  2. ↑ St. Pölten: The Festspielhaus goes on a “world tour”. Die Presse , May 12, 2009, accessed February 19, 2014 .
  3. ↑ (bz): Crossover Festival for Alt-Classical. Badische Zeitung , March 3, 2010, accessed on August 9, 2010 .
  4. ↑ a b Portrait: Etienne Abelin. In: Official website. Orchestra Mozart Bologna, accessed on August 9, 2010 (English).
  5. ↑ Re-Mix.Bach@Scholl. NDR , November 25, 2018, accessed January 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ Daniel Ender: A traveler between folk music, classical music and jazz. Der Standard , September 18, 2009, accessed August 9, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Abelin, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern